New Exhibit Download: Solar System Exhibit
The solar system exhibit is a multitouch interface that allows users to select planets as image hotspots and explore the pop-up windows. Each planet is linked to an informational pop-up that contains a slideshow of images and descriptive text for … Continue reading
Additional Museum Accessibility Resources
Building off of an earlier blog post about museum accessibility resources, we wanted to highlight another group of relevant publications and websites. The resources below are useful for anyone creating or evaluating inclusive museum experiences. Some come from non-profits and … Continue reading
Collection Viewer Paired with CollectiveAccess
The Open Exhibits Collection Viewer now has the ability to pull from collection data in CollectiveAccess collection management software. Catalog objects and metadata in CollectiveAccess are queried and pulled into the Collection Viewer interface for interactive browsing of museum or … Continue reading
New Exhibit Download: Flickr Collection Viewer Featuring Smithsonian’s Women in Science
Open Exhibits has released a new exhibit template that allows users to dynamically search any Flickr collection and browse through digital result sets. The exhibit includes retractable control stations, referred to as docks that guide users through query construction by … Continue reading
How critical are workshops in promoting universal design within a museum?
Last year, the Museum of Science in Boston held a week-long set of workshops as part of a project to demonstrate how digital interactive museum exhibit devices can be designed and developed for visitors who have a wide range of … Continue reading
OpenExhibits 2.5.1
OpenExhibits 2.5.1 is now available in the downloads section. This is a patch update to fix a bug for users who were developing in Adobe Flash, wherein a number of Flash libraries, particularly in the MX core, were not automatically … Continue reading
Museum Accessibility Resources
CMME is collecting existing resources on museum accessibility, as well as researching new tools and approaches. Here are some of our favorites: Cultural Access New England (CANE) was founded to advance access to cultural facilities in New England for people … Continue reading
CMME Workshop Part 1: Envisioning the Future of Accessible Digital Interactives
To launch Creating Museum Media for Everyone (CMME), a NSF grant which Jim mentioned in an earlier post, the Museum of Science, Boston held two back-to-back workshops in May 2012. Both the Possibilities and Concept Development Workshop were designed to … Continue reading
CMME Workshop Part 2: Developing Innovative Accessible Digital Interactives
Building off of ideas from CMME’s Possibilities Workshop, we moved into the second-half of the week and the Concept Development Workshop. This post describes what happened at this second, slightly smaller workshop and the innovative design approaches that participants created. … Continue reading
Kinect-enabled Gigapixel Viewer Part 2: Prepare a Gigapixel image
This is part two of a three part tutorial on how to set up the Kinect, create your own Gigapixel image, and use the Kinect with the Gigapixel viewer. Part 2 focuses on creating your own Gigapixel image; Part 1 … Continue reading
